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Rwanda has requested The Netherlands to arrest, try or extradite to Rwanda Charles Ndereyehe Ntahontuye, a man who invested heavily in the financing, execution and denial of the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi.
Founding member of the CDR and former director of Rwanda Institute of Agronomic Research (former ISAR) Ndereyehe fled Rwanda to Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) late in 1994 before settling to The Netherlands.
Charles Ndereyehe Ntahontuye
Since 20 April 2010, Ndereyehe has been subject to an international arrest warrant issued by Rwandan courts. He is also on the list of people wanted by Interpol.
In a Press release, Jean Damascene Bizimana, Executive Secretary of the National Commission for the Fight against the Genocide (CNLG) on Monday said the institution “requests the Netherlands to try Ndereyehe Charles.”
He said, “Due to lack of judgment, Dutch justice should extradite Ndereyehe to Rwanda as was done for Jean Claude Iyamuremye and Jean Baptiste Mugimba extradited to Rwanda on 12thNovember 2016.”
But who is this man?
Ndereyehe was born in former Cyabingo, Ruhengeri prefecture which was one of strongholds of genocidal government.
Bizimana brought in details the role of Ndereyehe in perpetuating the Genocide against Tutsi and his leading efforts to mislead the world about all facts today.
Introduced a formula of Genocide Plannig/Financing
According to Bizimana, Ndereyehe could be one of the officials of genocidal government who used the power bestowed on him to finance the Genocide, even involving all his deputies.
A few years before the Genocide, Ndereyehe headed the Gikongoro Agricultural Development Project (PDAG).
At that time, he collaborated with Captain Faustin Sebuhura, Deputy Commander of the Gikongoro Gendarmerie to establish Interahamwe militia in Gikongoro prefecture – now made of Nyamagabe and Nyaruguru districts.
Sebuhura and Ndereyehe, are neighbors – they hail from former Ruhengeri prefecture.
Other ‘partners’ in this extermination project included; director of agricultural projects located in Gikongoro: Pierre Célestin Mutabaruka, Manager of projet Crête Zaïre Nil , manager of Mata tea factory Denis Kamodoka and Juvenal Ndabarinze of Kitabi tea factory.
Justin Ayurugari, head of ELECTROGAZ and Celse Semigabo, public prosecutor were also part of this odd team and were all prosecuted over genocide offences.
In Nyamagabe, headquarter of former Gikongoro Prefecture, the killings of Tutsi was one of the worst in Rwanda.
At Murambi Genocide memorial, more than 50,000 Genocide victims are laid to rest.
